Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Question: "Resolved, That the higher education is desirable for an American girl not intending to enter a profession...
...higher importance is the refinement which the Fine Arts add to an education, of mere book-lore. There is a cultivation, a delicacy of perception, to be obtained by the study of art, which can not be acquired elsewhere. Following the changes of style and technique through the history of ancient art, the student feels the moral conditions which were expressed by those changes in art. Thus he must perceive the bold sincerity which marks the style of a risingschool, and the gradual loss of sincerity which always accompanies the decline. These perceptions of moral causes help strongly in forming...
Question: "Resolved, That the higher education is desirable for an American girl not intending to enter a profession...
...contamination of the North End." Had the writer himself ever approached the North End, he would not thus have exposed his ingnorance. In the houses of the poor in this district, Harvard students seek out in person the objects of their charity and labor to raise them to a higher life. It is safe to say that in no other college is there such effective organization of charitable and philanthropic work. "Harvard is not likely to bother about the idle fancies of human brotherhood or the dignity of man." Yet it is the Harvard undergraduates who have for years supported...
...very interesting affair and again the handicap proved too much for the scratch man. Out of justice to Kershaw L. S., however, it should be said that if it had not been so dark he would undoubtedly have won first place as his previous records have been far higher than he needed to go over. Only the first and second men in each event get prizes. Following is the summary...